The lives of the saints With introd and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work . ishop a man who was a convictedswindler. The violence of the author of the Refutation ofall Heresies was eHcited by the ease with which sinnerswere pardoned by Callixtus. The Pope may have seen thatthe borders of the Church were extending. If she were tobe, as she said she was, the Ark of Noah, containing cleanand unclean beasts, or the field full of tares as well as wheat,then it was impossible any longer to maintain the severity ofdiscipline
The lives of the saints With introd and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work . ishop a man who was a convictedswindler. The violence of the author of the Refutation ofall Heresies was eHcited by the ease with which sinnerswere pardoned by Callixtus. The Pope may have seen thatthe borders of the Church were extending. If she were tobe, as she said she was, the Ark of Noah, containing cleanand unclean beasts, or the field full of tares as well as wheat,then it was impossible any longer to maintain the severity ofdiscipline which had been observed in the primitive the Catholic Church must remain a collection of saintson earth, then she could only be a small community. If,on the other hand, she was to embrace all the sons of Adam,then she must relax her austere discipline to meet the needsof the feeble and the fallen. Callixtus adopted the trueview of the vocation of the Church, but his doing so arousedthe opposition of a Puritan party, the most advanced mem-bers of which took refuge in Montanism. The relics of S. Callixtus are in S. Maria beyond the * iji. S. DONATIAN, BISHOP OF RHEIMS. After Cahier. Oct., Part I. p. 352.] [Oct. 14. *- Oct, 14.] •^- Fortunatus. 353 Tiber, at Rome, some bones at Fulda, others at Cysoing,near Lisle; others at S. Michel on the Meuse, near Verdun ;a head in the church of S. Sebastian at Rome; an arm in ; another arm at S. Maria in Cosmedin ; partof an arm in SS. Sergius and Bacchus; and many otherbones in other churches of Rome. A head at Valentia, ajawbone at Cologne, part of a head at Prague, &c. S. FORTUNATUS, B. OF TODI.( 537.) [Roman Martyrology. Authority:—Gregoiy the Great, in his Dia-logues of Miracles, lib. i. c. lo.] Fortunatus, Bishop of Todi, in Italy, was popularly re-ported to have performed many miracles. A gentleman hada horse which was so wild that he could not mount it. Heled it to the bishop, who made the sign of the c
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